Shiqi dialect
Encyclopedia
Shiqi dialect is a dialect of Yue Chinese. It is spoken by roughly 160,000 people in Zhongshan
, Guangdong
's Shiqi
urban district. It differs slightly from Cantonese
, mainly in its pronunciation and lexicon.
Zhongshan
Zhongshan , also spelled Chungshan and historically known as Xiangshan or Siangshan, is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province in southern China. Zhongshan, one of the few cities in China with an eponymous name, is named after Dr. Sun Yat-sen who was...
, Guangdong
Guangdong
Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...
's Shiqi
Shiqi District
Shiqi District is an urban district at the centre of Zhongshan City, Guangdong, China. It covers an area of , and at the end of 2006, had a permanent population of 169,400 and 40,900 migrants. It was the location of the city's municipal government....
urban district. It differs slightly from Cantonese
Standard Cantonese
Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a language that originated in the vicinity of Canton in southern China, and is often regarded as the prestige dialect of Yue Chinese....
, mainly in its pronunciation and lexicon.